Judd Apatow is pretty good, both as a producer and as a director.
MEL BROOKSRhetoric does not get you anywhere, because Hitler and Mussolini are just as good at rhetoric. But if you can bring these people down with comedy, they stand no chance.
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You got to be brave. If you feel something, you’ve really got to risk it.
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Look, I don’t want to wax philosophic, but I will say that if you’re alive you’ve got to flap your arms and legs.
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When you come to Germany as a Jew you have an uneasy feeling, but I’ve always felt okay in Berlin.
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I don’t have a mission. I don’t have a torch to burn.
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It’s talent. Either you got it or you ain’t.
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A brushstroke of vanity is good to add into the mix, to balance your timidity.
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A cinema villain essentially needs a moustache so he can twiddle with it gleefully as he cooks up his next nasty plan.
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I know how to make it a great musical. I’ve got to. It’s like I’ve got to see it on stage.
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He who hesitates is poor.
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I like Chris Rock. He’s dangerous.
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If you stand on a soapbox and trade rhetoric with a dictator you never win.
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You’re always a little disappointing in person because you can’t be the edited essence of yourself.
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We want to get people laughing; we don’t want to offend anybody.
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I was a soldier in WWII. The last couple of months of the war I was actually in combat.
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No, no, the songs write themselves, almost.
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